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Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2023
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Andrew C. M. Hicks, Highland, NY (US);

Ryan Lo, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Selvi John, Bangalore, IN;

Santosh Rajashekar, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/73 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/73 (2013.01);
Abstract

Code comment quality assurance includes calculating a complexity of a code portion extracting, from the code portion, one or more comments associated with the code portion, converting the one or more comments into a set of text features, quantifying the set of text features, determining, for the one or more comments, alignment between the one or more comments and the associated code portion using the quantifications of the set of text features and the complexity of the code portion, and triggering a notification responsive to the determination that the one or more comments and the associated code portion are misaligned.


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